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China bans gold farming
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Gold farmers! They're everywhere, right? We get spammed by them, we run into them farming Dire Maul, we put them on ignore. Lazy people with too much disposable income buy gold from them in a show of crass consumerism. Blizzard has done their best to stamp out gold-farming services, but litigation is difficult due to the fact that most of the major gold-farming companies are based in China or other parts of Asia. They've instead opted to try to control and stop gold farmers from being able to complete transactions via other methods. To give you an idea of how much an economic impact this will have on China, gold farming alone generates nearly one billion dollars a year worldwide, with China's specific numbers growing at a reported rate of 20% per year. It's estimated that 80 to 85 percent of gold farmers reside in China, so this ruling is massive and, to be frank, pretty troubling.
Velen the Divine is the leader of the Draenei. He has a rather storied history. He was there when Sargeras tempted Archimonde and Kil'Jaden. Of the three, Velen was the only one who managed to figure out what Sargeras' true plans were (since the title Destroyer of Worlds does kind of give that away). Leading the rest of his followers, Velen managed to escape and eventually land on the Orc homeworld of Draenor. The relationship between Draenei and Orc were not hostile initially. Kil'Jaden managed to influence Ner'zhul enough for him to start going after the Draenei. Soon after that, Velen and his followers were on the run again. They managed to hide out in Zangarmarsh for many years. This was during the time of Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal. During the time period of Warcraft III, Velen led an assault on Tempest Keep and commandeered the Exodar. The Blood Elves managed to sabotage it resulting in a crash landing into Azeroth when they fired up the engines.
This time, though, it looks like Blizzard may have an unlikely ally in, of all things, the Chinese government. They announced today that the trading of virtual goods for real money is now illegal in China. This ruling reaches farther than just gold farming, though. It also bans the sale of prepaid time cards for MMOs or other online games, as well as numerous technicalities we're sure to hear about in the weeks to come.
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